Vagrant is intended to make starting, provisioning and then destroying and rebuilding virtual machine instances quick and easy. It makes it much easier to bring

Vagrant is intended to make starting, provisioning and then destroying and rebuilding virtual machine instances quick and easy. It makes it much easier to bring up VMs in different configurations for different projects and provides a way to store the runtime environment configuration with the code for a particular project. It's primarily a tool for software developers but as it gains more provisioning capability it's roll seems to be expanding and you can use ansible as a tool to provision a vagrant VM.